Kostajnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

This article is about the town on the Una river. For villages near Doboj and Konjic, see Kostajnica (disambiguation).

Kostajnica Koстајница
Municipality
Hrvatska Kostajnica (left) and Kostajnica (right)
Coat of arms
Location of Kostajnica within Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Republika Srpska
Government
• Mayor	Marko Čolić (SNSD)
Area
• Total	85,12 km2 (3,287 sq mi)
Population (2013 census)
• Total	6,308
• Density	74,1/km2 (1,920/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Area code(s)	52
Website	Official website

Kostajnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Коstajnica), is a town and municipality in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of the Republika Srpska entity. It is situated in the part of the Кrajina region. The municipality was created from part of the pre-war municipality of Novi Grad. It is located across the Una from Hrvatska Kostajnica, Croatia.

Name

Passport stamp bearing just the name Kostajnica.

During the Bosnian War, it was renamed to Srpska Kostajnica (Српска Костајница). After that, name of the town was changed to Kostajnica.

Demographics

1991

In the 1991 census, Kostajnica was part of the Novi Grad municipality, and its population numbered 3,768 people, including:

• 1,715 Serbs
• 1,659 Bosniaks
• 182 Yugoslavs
• 126 Croats
• 86 others

Note: The vast majority of those who declared as Muslims by nationality in 1991 have considered themselves Bosniaks since the Bosnian War, as before the 1910s.

History

From 1929 to 1941, Bosanska Kostajnica was part of the Vrbas Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

See also

• Municipalities of Republika Srpska

External links

• Official website (Serbian)
• Kostajnica (Serbian)
• Kostajnica (Bosnian)